lilys - kodiak (reprise)

from eccsame the photon band

son.sine - upekah

just a beautiful ep ~ grab it here!

hiroshi yoshimura

a couple of albums that have been keeping me from worrying too much about things lately.

Green (1986)
Music For Nine Postcards (1982)

alex g - unreleased/assorted/etc.

spent the past week scrumbling around youtube listening to as many of alex g's unreleased songs as i could find, and decided to put together a little compilation of my favorite ones + a couple other assorted tunes of his that are scattered across the internet + a few from his old band, the skin cells. enjoy!

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1. Cards
2. Skating
3. Chinese Melodies
4. Molly
5. After Ur Gone (Acoustic Demo)
6. Sarah
7. Change My Mind
8. Break
9. Holy Fuck (Shooting Star) (The Skin Cells)
10. Soaker
11. You are Great
12. Tie Me Down (The Skin Cells)
13. Nintendo 64
14. Not Anywhere
15. Kara
16. Space Beetles (The Skin Cells)

they've all wormed their way into my head, but this one is just so special:

jan jelinek - loop-finding-jazz-records

like a drowsy dance party in outer space..

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julia brown - an abundance of strawberries

considering how big of an admirer i am of sam ray's work, from ricky eat acid to teen suicide to everything in between, it's funny how long it's taken me to listen to the latest thing from one of his in-between projects, julia brown. i suppose its release - an unassuming link to a dropbox download on facebook - was understated enough to keep me from rushing to give it a listen...the album had been hidden in some obscure folder on my computer for the past couple of months, and now, hearing it for the first time, it seems ridiculous that something this wonderful had been so close to me all this time. and that's the kind of music this is - comforting to have around, even when you're not listening to it. like an old friend you can share a quiet existence with. i think i'll be playing this often over the next little while.

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letta mbulu - normalizo

a beautiful tune from her 1985 album, Sweet Juju

really breaks down at 2:15

mark fry - down narrow streets

from his 1972 album Dreaming with Alice

ingleton falls - champagne in mozambique

i've been waiting a few days to post this while i try to piece together the few bits of information i could gather about this little album...and i haven't found much...i know that these songs were self-released in 1993 by two guys named andy and that the limited run of tapes were hidden inside hollowed out books from the 'ingleton falls library,' which strikes me as a cool and interesting thing. i tend to fall for this mystique of obscure and dated tunes; a sort of nostalgia for pre-internet times where music could exist in these shadowy corners of the world and potentially remain there, lost forever! but i also love living here, in the present, where i was somehow able to find this twenty-year-old tape that someone decided upload to youtube. how wonderful! but this is all beside the point - the music itself is nice, specifically the two songs below: lush, hypnotic, drugged grooves that are nice to zone out to on a sunny autumnal afternoon like this one.

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